Rotary Club of Edmonds

PO Box 115

Edmonds, WA 98020

Minutes of the Board of Directors meeting of December 15, 2004

  In attendance were Elizabeth Crouch, Mike Kealy, Vern Chase, Don Henderson, Kathy Dahlstrom, Alex Hopkins, Carol Kinney, Joan Longstaff, Karen Wiggins, Pam Halsan, and Don Schmutz.

Meeting was called to order at 7:35 am by President Elizabeth Crouch.

Minutes for the 11/17/2004 meeting were approved as amended.  (Moved by Carol and seconded by Vern.)

It was requested by Vern and agreed to by Elizabeth that she would request that Mike Meeks send out a Treasurer’s Report by email when he is unable to make the board meeting.

It was questioned why that the cost of the Backwash was not being charged against that line item with a contra entry funding the Guardian Ad Litem scholarship program.  Elizabeth will ask Mike to make the appropriate entry.

It was asked when the transfer of money from the Foundation to the Club Scholarship fund was going to take place which brings up the question of when the Foundation Board is going to meet.  Elizabeth is tasked to ask Doug Purcell to arrange.

Elizabeth announced that she will be taking over the major potion of the Backwash production for next year when Michael is president. 

Vocational Service:

 Middle School Career Fairs:  Kathy reported that she was not getting as much participation as she would like.

Business Week: Kathy found out that Business Week is a wonderful program that will include all five high schools and the kids will get college credit for the week long experience. The donation will be used strictly to send the kids to the program. 

International Service:

Carol reported that they have selected 15 out of 20 Thai applicants to give scholarships to.  The funds are going to be disbursed by the Charoen Nakorn Rotary club on our behalf. 

Community Service:

Elizabeth reported that there have been questions about the Boys & Girls Club kids not being particularly needy in relation to the Christmas Shopping spree that we do jointly with the Daybreakers.  The Community Service committee is going to look into the question in coordination with the Daybreakers.

Joan mentioned that the Comprehensive Plan was being discussed at public hearing before the Planning Board.

Club Service:

Alex reported that the Fireside meeting was tonight  at Carol’s house.

Membership:

Joan wondered why there have been no District level Membership meetings or programs this year.  Don moved that Ken Johnson of Photo.com Corporation who used be a Ballard Rotarian was sponsored by Carl Swenson. It was approved unanimously.

Waterfront Festival:

Karen reported that we did not get the week-end before Memorial Day this year but we are going to try for 2006.  Karen is concerned about budget impact for the Family Boat Building that the Port wants.  She reported that we were trying to get Ciscoe Morris this year. 

Vern reported that he went down to the Center for Wooden Boats and was very impressed with the possibilities for the Family Boat Building project.  The only cost for us would be a tent and the opportunity cost for the lost booth rental.  Vern reported that it normally attracts a big crowd. 

Vern suggested that we have a Mission Statement for the Waterfront Festival.  Vern suggested “The Mission of the Edmonds Rotary Waterfront Festival is to provide to the community an entertaining and high quality, marine-oriented family festival that builds awareness of the Rotary Club of Edmonds and its many local and international service projects and to generate funds to support those projects.”

Vern proposed that we get the membership involved prior to signing up for shifts at the Festival itself. Michael suggested that we assign people to committees.

Michael is working with Karen to get some major attractions (like Ciscoe Morris) to help attract some major sponsors for the Festival.

Elizabeth requested to do a Club Assembly for the Waterfront Festival in January.  It was scheduled for January 11, 2005. 

Old Business:

New Business:

Meeting was adjourned at 9:05am